4 Shocking Examples of Police Militarization in America's Small Towns | Alternet

4 Shocking Examples of Police Militarization in America's Small Towns | Alternet: 



For nearly half a century, the general trend within America’s police precincts has been toward greater militarization, a transformation initiated by the culture wars of the 1960s and facilitated by the war on drugs, fear of inner-city crime, and anxieties over the threat of terrorism.